Viv Review: Utilities savings and subscription services

The company is based out of Connecticut in the US and headed up by CEO Cami Boehme.

As far as MLM goes, Boehme’s Viv corporate bio is light on specifics but does provide some facts and figures.

Cami brings depth and breadth of experience to Viv, as a former board member and Chief Strategy Officer of a $744 million energy company, and a former Chief Operating Officer of the 59th largest direct sales company in the world.

The unnamed company above is Viridian, of which Boehme (right) was a “partner” of and Chief Operating Officer.

Viridian was also utility based MLM opportunity, combined with a travel discount offering.

The Viv compensation is light on specifics, but I believe points count from an affiliate’s own purchases, sales to retail customers and purchases by personally recruited affiliates.

Group points is the sum total of an affiliate’s personal points and that of their downline.

Viv Affiliate Ranks

There are XX ranks within the Viv compensation plan.

Along with their respective qualification criteria, they are as follows:

Consultant 20 – generate and maintain 20 personal points a month

Consultant 40 – generate and maintain 40 group points a month

Consultant 80 – generate and maintain 80 group points a month

Promoter 160 – generate and maintain 160 group points a month

Pacesetter – recruit and maintain six Customer Point Bonus qualified affiliates, who each have recruited two Customer Point Bonus qualified affiliates, who each have recruited another two Customer Point Bonus qualified affiliates

The technical difference is that Viridian locked consumers into contracts, which more often than not were overpriced.

If Utiliz works the way it’s advertised, then Viv affiliates should receive competitive utility rates. Do keep in mind you have to factor in any fees Utiliz might charge on top of service though.

The solar service I have no idea as details aren’t provided. Not really sure how important the solar offering is anyway, as I imagine individual Viv affiliates will struggle to land significant business accounts.

Local businesses might be an option but cost-benefit analysis might prove prohibitive.

Moving onto Viv’s service subscriptions, clearly these are not designed to be subscribed to individually or even two or three at a time.

At $69.99 for all seven subscriptions this is pretty much the only option that won’t leave you feeling ripped off (relative to the cost of one or two subscriptions). And that’s obviously by design.

The danger here is that Viv will, for the most part, wind up being an MLM company full of affiliates paying $69.99 a month.

With an equal amount or greater retail activity taking place, this isn’t a problem.

The company does have a page on its website dedicated to the “opportunity”, but no specifics are provided.

By all means keep the compensation plan video, but it needs to be supplemented with a full copy of Viv’s compensation plan. Preferably with direct access from the Viv website.

There are more than a few holes in our breakdown of Viv’s compensation plan and that’s because the information is simply not publicly available.

Not good enough guys.

Looking forward, I also think Cami Boehme probably needs to explain her timely departure from Viridian.

I’m not suggesting anything amiss (outside of Boehme holding a key executive role in a company that was ripping off consumers), but for anyone doing their research the unexplained timing isn’t a good look.

From the outside looking in it certainly appears Boehme had some notion of what was up, bailed and then less than a month later emerged with a new company in the same MLM niche.

All of that said I’m not sure where this would fit into the Viv website (perhaps a paragraph incorporated into Boehme’s corporate bio).

Hell if you’re reading this Cami we’d even be happy for a retelling of what happened in the comments below. Just to clarify the air, otherwise it’s always going to hang over Viv’s launch.

One thing I was impressed with was Viv’s 90% refund policy. If you sign up you have thirty days to decide whether Viv is for you.

Thirty days isn’t long enough to generate significant income for most people not jumping from another company, but it’s long enough to get a taste of Viv as a business.

Before you do that though I’d recommend two things. Try the services for a month or two and see if you actually use them.

If not then there might be a problem with the services with respect to retail viability, which is a problem.

Being a points-based compensation plan, thankfully this is easy enough. What you want to find out from your potential upline (the affiliate you’d be signing up under), is how many retail points they’re generating each month versus their own spend and that of personally recruited affiliates.

Bear in mind retail customers are not affiliates. If someone has paid the affiliate fee, even if they’re no longer marketing Viv, they’re still an affiliate until their membership expires (annually).

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